Classes
What Would a Sociologist See?
The Sociological Imagination: Tracing Personal Troubles to Public Issues
Making the Familiar Strange: The Art of Defamiliarization
Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
The Machinery of Inequality: Institutions, Networks, and Cultural Maps
Who Knows? Reflexivity and the Sociologist's Dilemma
Making the Invisible Visible: Synthesis and the Levers of Action
Foundations & Further Reading
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The decline in U.S. manufacturing employment: 1998–2009
Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
NBER Working Paper · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
Views of inequality in rich and poor countries
Pew Research Center · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
Why Americans believe that poverty is the result of personal failings
Social Forces · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
The Sociological Imagination (1959)
Oxford University Press · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
Bureau of Labor Statistics · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
American Sociological Association · Background for Class 1: What Would a Sociologist See?
Free Press (1951 reprint of 1897 original) · Background for Class 2: The Sociological Imagination: Tracing Personal Troubles to Public Issues
Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Case & Deaton, 2015 · Background for Class 2: The Sociological Imagination: Tracing Personal Troubles to Public Issues
Oxford University Press, C. Wright Mills, 1959 · Background for Class 2: The Sociological Imagination: Tracing Personal Troubles to Public Issues
Body Ritual among the Nacirema
American Anthropologist · Background for Class 3: Making the Familiar Strange: The Art of Defamiliarization
Defamiliarization (Literary Theory)
Encyclopaedia Britannica · Background for Class 3: Making the Familiar Strange: The Art of Defamiliarization
The Nacirema: A Pedagogical Tool for Revealing the Sociological Imagination
Teaching Sociology · Background for Class 3: Making the Familiar Strange: The Art of Defamiliarization
Journal of Mathematical Sociology · Background for Class 4: Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
Threshold Models of Collective Behavior
American Journal of Sociology · Background for Class 4: Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
Understanding the social context of the Schelling segregation model
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) · Background for Class 4: Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity
Journal of Political Economy · Background for Class 4: Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades
Journal of Political Economy · Background for Class 4: Emergence and Feedback: How Individual Actions Build Unintended Structures
Phipps v. Louisiana Board of Health, Summary and Background
Legal Information Institute · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
Encyclopedia Virginia · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
Examining the complicated history of the U.S. census questions on race and ethnicity
Pew Research Center · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender: Performativity
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
Identity Documents and Privacy | National Center for Transgender Equality
NCTE · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality
Brazil - Demographic trends: Ethnic and racial composition
Encyclopaedia Britannica · Background for Class 5: Performing Categories: Race, Gender, and the Construction of Reality